A University President as Seen from the Inside. (March 6, 2005)

    The utterances of university presidents (vice-chancellors, rectors) rarely make world news, but over the last six weeks, Harvard's Larry Summers has been the subject of hundreds of articles in the mass media, engendered by his comments that inherent differences between the sexes could be significant factors in their disproportionate representation in mathematics and the sciences. Once the remarks were made public those members of Harvard's faculty who have been opposed to Summer's moves to remake the university as well as his tendency to publicly abuse faculty who questioned or contradicted him, felt they had been handed the pretext to launce a frontal attack. Shades of Crown Prince Rudolph's assassination triggering World War I.

Below you'll find links to three articles written by a staff writer of Harvard's student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, to give you something of a picture from within. Click on the article's title to open he full text.